While considering our looks we never think of the organs that actually make us live without giving a thought to our judgments on our physical appearance. They just strive to do what they are designed to do- keeping us healthily alive. Physical attributes such as body shape, structure, height, skin color, density of hair on …
Physical wellness starts from being aware of the functional aspects of the body mechanism and being ‘Body Positive’, just not in the sense of how one’s look or color is like, but being very aware of the body’s functional mechanism. Sharira is a Sanskrit word meaning “Body.” Ayurveda describes Sharira as the seat of consciousness; …
If Human beings are animals, then what makes them so special among animals? The most basic answer would be cognition, the cognitive ability they possess. How often do we consciously think about the body we have? How connected we are with our body and its functional aspects? Maybe, for most of us, we think of …
I landed on earth carrying a “Maha Samaj” or a mega society of cells forming different organs, flesh, muscles, blood and bone that required constant attention, nurturing and fuel to grow eventually to roughly 50 trillion cells to make me a full grown adult that I am today. As a totipotent cell embryo in her …